The police chief of the school district in Uvalde, Texas was sworn in as a city councilman on May 31 as investigators probing the police response to the recent elementary school mass shooting sought to interview him.
Pete Arredondo, the chief of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, won the election before the May 24 shooting to the Uvalde City Council.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said in a statement that Arredondo and the other members-elect were sworn in per the City Charter.
“Out of respect for the families who buried their children today, and who are planning to bury their children in the next few days, no ceremony was held,” he said….